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DECEMBER 16. 198 THE LI BE RAT BOUT1I-SIDM VIEW OF THE VASKUUi -piTX. MEETING. Martland Rktcdiatrs Northern Docgu-Faces. The following article from a late number of the Baltimore (Md.) Patriot, will bo read with great interest at the present time.

The Patriot is one of the oldest and mmt conservative, as well as influential journals in Maryland. If we mistake not, it has been for many years under the control of a direct descendant of President Monroe. The sentiments herein ottered are no doubt those of a great majority of the intellectual men of the Southern State. The Patriot knows the sentiments of the South all its interests, pecuniary and political all its social relations, are Southern. No paper is better able to comprehend the position of the great political par-tie of this country, as at present divided its sentiments therefore will, as they ought, strike home with peculiar emphasis.

We commend them particularly to those who attend! the Lnion-meeting at Faneail Hall on Friday. Atlas. Wo perceive that the Looofoco Dough-Faces in Boston, New York and Philadelphia propose hold-ins meetings for the purpose of appeasing the wrath of Ixjcoforodisunionists in the South, at the recent hibitionsof f.wlisheentimentalism for John Brown, by a handful, here and there, of Abolition Disuniou-ists in those cities. If there be any character in the world that we liave any contempt for, it is the dirt-eating doughface of the free States. He has no real regard whatever for the South and its institutions, and yet, under the pretence of sympathy for them, he wii! proclaim himself our friend, keeping his eyes steadily all the while upon the pecuniary benefit to he derived therefrom.

He will do anything that Southern fire-eaters will require of him, even to licking the very dust off their shoes and though these partisans are perfectly aware of his hypocrisy, yet, strange to sav, they affect to be gratified at the exhibition. Why is this? Because they hope thus to get his vote. This is the sum and substance of the whole operation, and what is more, its real object. The Locofocos of the South demand the sacrifice, and the Locofocos of the North are ready to make it. We all know that not a single resolution will be adopted at these forthcoming meetings, not one word spoken by nny of their dough-face orators, that will tpress their real sentiments, and so far as the Araer-iiSin party of Maryland are conceded, they want none of this make-believe sympathy.

Indeed, they want no sympathy at all from anybody. They are a power it the State, not a Balance of Power party, and though they were cheated at the election out of the majority in the counties, they mean to get it back next fall, without so much as saying to the Locofocos, By your leave. They are not to be deceived about the real sentiments of the people of the 'EVn nnd thevdon't want any Northern or Western man to eat dirt to please them. They don't ask any such degradation. What they want is the vote of the Northern and Western Opposition, by whatever namo they may call themselves, for a conservative Presidential ticket next fall.

As to slavery in Maryland, they can take care of that themselves, and as they hold opinions about that institution, contrary to those entertained by people in the Free States, they don't require of those people, as a prelude to a political union in the next Presidential election, the surrender of their manhood, or the profession of a lie on their lips about slavery. That Locofoco tactics. Away, then, with the proposed dough-face meetings, in the three Eastern cities The Americans of Maryland want no such exhibitions of degradation to sustain them in maintaining the institution of Slavery in this State. They ask no odds of any free State on this subject. They sustain slave labor, because it is their will' so to do, and for no other reason.

They seek no excuse for this exercise of their independent will. So long as the American party have a voice in puonc auairs in and can control her public action, no power can force her to leave the Union of these States, becase the Northern and Western people choose to dislike slavery. They may talk against it till doomsday, and Maryland will not care but whenever any John Brown shall attempt an inroad into her borders, 6he is amply able to take care not only of herself and her slaves, but also of her invaders, and that, too, not a la Wisel Nor do the Americans of Maryland care what the locofoco disunionists of the South, or any of their fraternizers, say or think about them. She is in a position that enables her to say to North and South hands off, stand back and what is more, she has the means and ability, to enforce her will, without surrendering her reserved rights to the Federal Union. As Decatur said in relation to Baltimore city, She gives graves to her invaders, and monuments to her defenders So far as the American party of Maryland are concerned, then, the Northern Dough-Faces who are going to play the Pharisee and the fool to the South, may as well save their breath and their hypocrisy.

We all know the value of their professions. They cannot make Maryland a Locofoco State next fall, do what they may, and we want no Dough- dates whom we shall support. We want the votes XT. 1 1 l.afc or West, whose opposition to Locofocoism is as firm and unrelenting as ours is. We want nothing to do with Dough-Face sentiment.

The American party nf ftrvnrA linnw urlmfc thvv t.honnu-1 ven think about slavery, and they are willing that the people of other States shall have their opinions about it too. They a mvivi mm aauvsaisvxs any other subject, is sufficient to keep the opponents kl lyuvirnpnism nrtart in the crroilk Rtrilrrirlrt of next fall. Indeed, they believe the expulsion of the Loco- 1 loco party irom power win ne sure to resuii in ex 1n1in tkannoslinn R.nverv from nnlitics entirelv The incense, therefore, to be burned this week on Locofoco altars in Boston, New York and Philadel phia, will not bo a sweet smelling odor in the nos- trita nf jvclnnH imenmna Thp rrpfr thft Mien lU. v. luitt a V.

a amixvi I i hostility of enemies to the hypocrisy ol such friends hut Maryland knows no enemies. North, South, East or West, except the Disunionist, and Abolition Locofocos, and them she is ready to war against to the death, whether here at home in our own cities or State, or in other States. Oar good friend of the Richmond Whig cordially the idea of the formation of voluntary associations throughout Virginia and the South, bound together by a common pledge among themselves neither to eat, drink, wear, buy or use any article whatsoever manufactured at or imported from the All this may bo very well, to touch the pocket of the North, but how are we to protect the Southern heart against the fascinating belles of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia The girls who give the South, What gold can never buy. There is no need of forming any other voluntary associations than those imposed by the marriage service. True, our fathers in the revolution mado and carried out a similar pledge in regard to importations from them other country, but they never made the importation of the mothers of the country contraband.

We propose a war of retaliation. If the North will interfere with our Southern domestic institutions, let our young men go forth and rob the Northern mes of their most cherished ornaments, and bring them back to founa more patriarchal relations among m. Let us conquer prejudices by the potent aid of love, and brin willing captives to our arms. The idea of not eating New England salmon next spring, or of refusing an ice crop from Chicago when the dog-star ragoe the bore thought of having Indiana grouse, or a Maine supply ot potatoes, interdicted to us of being compelled to read of New York oysters or Pittsburg ale, and be in the tantalising condition of not enjoying them the terrible calamity involved in giving up the Newark cider sold for ihtmtiarn nr th rectified whisker of Cincinnati druz-'ed for old Otard brandy the shivering sensa tion produced by the very thought of refusing to be If. 11 a.

1 'a. 1 uppusi wild I'ennsyivania, coat hub wmier uj rv-i-logg because it is mined by an underground railroad the setting our obdurate appetites against trie produce of 1 loonier pigeon roosts, a teal or Diue-wing, because they fly from the North all these ara overwhelming. We are patriotic enough as the wona wags, riut we cannot surrender our gastnw nomie liberty. Cseear had bis Brutus, Charles I. his Cromwell, and a voluntary association to neither drink or eat Northern good things has its Louisville -Journal; if tins is treason, make the most of it.

Oar friend of the Richmond HAiwilt forgive us. if, after having stood politically shoulder to shoulder for yean, we now part stomach to stomach on 'this question of internal It Is bard to sander old ties, and our very bowels will yearn fc. reunited, but then stomachic bitten give an appetite and promote digestion, and so we drain the bitter cup to the dregs. Louisville Journal. T.

HE ft i Jufriratar, NO UNION" "WITH SIiAVEHOIDEBS. BOSTON, DECEMBER 16, 1859. SPEECH OF WM. LLOYD Q.ARBISOCT, At the Meeting in Tremont Temple, Deo. 2d, relating to the Execution of John Brown.

I do not rise, on this occasion, to define my position (laughter); that, I believe, Virginia and the South clearly understand, and I as clearly understand theirs. Between us there is an irrepressible conflict, (applause.) and I am for carrying it on until it finished in victory or death. (Renewed applause.) For thirty years I have been endeavoring to effect, by peaceful, moral and religious instrumentalities, the abolition of American slavery and, if possible, I hate slavery thirty times more than I did when I began, and I am thirty times more, if possible, an aboli? tionist of the most uncompromising character. (Loud applause.) "With reference to the gentlemen who have preceded roe here, I am glad to hare the scriptural declaration made good 'The first shall be last, and the last first. (Applause.) I shall heartily rejoice if the church and the clergy if men of influence, and high standing, and character will come forward, and take the lead in this great battle against the gigantic, overshadowing despotism of our land.

A word or two in regard to the characteristics of John Brown. He was of the old Puritan stock a Cromwellian who believed in God, and at the same time in keeping his powder dry. He believed in the sword of the Lord and of Gideon, and acted accordingly. Ilcrein I differed widely from him. But, certainly, he was no 'infidel' oh, no! How it would have added to the fiendish malignity of the New York Observer, if John Brown had only been an 4 infidel, evangelically speaking But being exactly of the Observer pattern of theology, that fact lias been a very hard pill to swallow yet, so bent upon sustaining slavery in our land is that wicked journal, that it is pre-eminently ferocious in its spirit toward John Brown, and has been loudly clamorous for his execution, notwithstanding his religious faith.

As it respects his object at Harper's Ferry, it has been truly stated here by those who have preceded me, and by John Brown himself, whose declarations to the court have been read. The man who brands him as a traitor is a calumniator. (Applause.) The man who says that his object was to promote murder, or insurrection, or rebellion, is, in the language of the apostle, a liar, and the truth is not in (Loud applause.) John Brown meant to effect, if possible, a peaceful exodus from Virginia and had not his large humanity overpowered his judgment in regard to his prisoners, he would in all probability have succeeded, and not a drop of blood would have been shed. But it is asked, Did he not have stored un a larze suonJv of Sham's rifles and spears? What did they mean Nothing offensive, nothing aggres sive. Only this he designed getting as many slaves as he could to join him, and then putting into their hands those instruments for self-defence.

But, mark you self-defence, not in standing their ground, but on their retreat to the mountains on their flight to Canada; not with any design or wish to shed the blood or harm the hair of a single slaveholder in the State of Virginia, if a conflict could be avoided. Remember that he had the whole town in his possession for thirty-six hours and if he had been the man so basely represented in certain quarters, he might have consummated any thing in the way of violence and blood. But, all the while, he was counselling the strictest self-defence, and forbearance to the utmost, even when he had his enemies completely in his power. As to his trial, I affirm that it was an awful mock ery, liefore heaven and earth He was not tried in a court of justice. Mark how they crowded the counts together in one indictment Murder, Treason7, and Insurrection Of what was John Brown convicted Who knows Perhaps some of the jury convicted him of treason; others of murder; and others, again, of insurrection.

Who can tell There was no trial upon any specific point. John Brown has been judicially assassinated. It was the trial of the lamb by the wolf nothing less. See the ferocious spirit of the Virginians, in their treatment of the living and the dead Let me give you a single specimen, as narrated by an eye-witness. This is Southern testimony The dead lay on the streets, and in the river, and were subjected to every indignity that a wild and madly excited people could heap upon them.

Curses were freely uttered against them, and kicks and blows inflicted upon them. The huge mulatto that shot Mr. Turner was lying in the gutter in front of the arsenal, with a horrible wound in his neck, and though dead and gory, vengeance was unsatisfied, and many, as they ran sticks into his wound, or beat him tcith them, wished that he had a thousand lives, that all of them might be forfeited in expiation and avengementof the foul deed he had committed. Leeman lay upon a rock in the river, and was made a target for the practice of those who had captured Sharpe's rifles in the affray. Shot after shot was tired at him, and when tired of this sport, a man waded out to where he lay, and set him up, in grotesque attitudes, and finally pushed him oil', and he floated down the stream.

the spirit engendered by Southern slavery Is there any thing like it on earth? So cowardly, so brutal, so unmerciful, so fiend-like Truly The planters of Columbia Are gods beneath the skies They stamp the slave into the grave. They feed on famine's sighs They blight all homes they break al2 hearts, Except, alns their own While a moan, and a groan, That move th Almighty's throne. Bring angels' tears in pity down, And move the Eternal throne They cannot help this. It is because they are slaveholders. It is because they have struck down the sacred rights of man.

It is because they have exalted themselves above all that is called God. It is because they have blotted out the Decalogue, the Golden Rule, the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Declaration of Independence and, conscious of their tremendous guilt, they are carried to the extreme of fiendish desperation whenever they are crossed in their track. Was John Brown justified in his attempt Yes, if Washington was in his if Warren and Hancock were in theirs. If men are justified in striking a blow for freedom, when the question is one of a threepenny tax on tea, then, I say, they are a thousand times more justified, when it is to save fathers, mothers, wives and children from the slave-cofflc and the auction-block, and to restore to them their God-given rights. (Loud applause.) Was John Brown justified in interfering in behalf of the slave population of Virginia, to secure their freedom and- independence Yes, if LaFayelte was justified in interfering to help our revolutionary fathers.

If Kosciusko, if Pulaski, if Steuben, if De Kalb, if all who joined them from abroad were justified in that act. then John Brown was incomparably more so. If you believe in the right of assisting men to fight for freedom who are of your own' color (God knows nothing i color or complexion human rights know nothing of these distinctions) then you mut cover, not only with a mantle of charity, but with the admiration of your the effort of John Brown at Harper's Ferry. I am trying him by th American standard and I hesitate not to say, with all deliberation, that those who are attempting to decry him are dangerous members of the community they are those in whom the love of liberty has died out thty srs the lineal descendants of the tories of the Revolution, only a great deal worse. (Applause.) If the spirit of '76 prevailed to-day, as it did at that period, it would make the soil of the Commonwealth too hot to hold them.

(Loud applause.) See the con- I ristency, the vigilance, the determination of the South in support of her slave system She moves and acts as by one impulse. Every man on her soil who is suspected of cherishing the principles of liberty is tabooed, persecuted, and brutally outraged, especially if he be from the North. She makes clean work ef it, and is consistent. On the other hand, how is it at the North Tresses which are venomously pro-slavery in spirit, and wholly Southern in their design, are every where allowed presses which insult the good name and fame of the old Commonwealth, dishonor her illustrious dead, and contemn her glorious memories, for the purpose of 'crushing out the spirit of freedom, and making absolute the sway of a ferocious slave oligarchy and this they do with impunity. Now I say that if the North should, in de fence of her free institutions, imitate the example of the South in support of slavery, there would be a speedy and thorough cleaning out of our cities and towns, of those who are desecrating the ground upon which they stand.

(Loud applause.) And it would be a more hopeful state of things than it is now; for this toleration is not the result of principle, but the lark of it it is not a noble forbearance, but a loss of vital regard for the cause of liberty. A word upon the subject of Peace. I am a non-resistant a believer in the inviolability of human life, under all circumstances therefore, in the name of God, disarm John Brown, and every slave at the South. But I do not stop there; if I did, I should be a monster. I also disarm.

In the name of God, every slaveholder and tyrant in the world. (Loud applause.) For wherever that principle is adopted, all fetters must instantly melt, and there can be no oppressed, and no oppressor, in the nature of things. How many agree with me in regard to the doctrine of the inviolability of human life? How many non- resistants are there here to-night? (A single voice There is one (Laughter.) Well, then, you who are otherwise are not the men to point the finger at John Brown, and cry traitor judging you by your own standard. (Applause.) Nevertheless, I am a non-resistant, and I not only desire, but have labored unremittingly to effect the peaceful abolition of slavery, by an appeal to the reason and conscience of the slaveholder; yet, as a peace man an ultra' peace man I am prepared to say, Success to every slave insurrection at the South, and in every slave (Enthusiastic applause.) And I do not see how I compromise or stain my peace profession in making that declaration. Whenever there is a contest between the oppressed and the oppressor, the weapons being equal between the parties, God knows that my heart must be with the oppressed, and always against the oppressor.

Therefore, whenever com menced, I cannot but wish success to all slave insurrections. (Loud applause.) I thank God when men who believe in the right and duty of wielding carnal weapons are so far advanced that they will take those weapons out of the scale of despotism, and throw them into the scale of freedom. It is an indication of progress, and a positive moral growth it is one way to get up to the sublime platform of non-resistance and it is God's method of dealing retribution upon the head of the tyrant. Rather than see men wearing their chains in a cowAdly and servile spirit, I would, as an advocate of peace, much rather see them breaking the head of the tyrant with their chains. Give me, as a non-resistant, Bunker Hill, and Lexington, and Concord, rather than the cowardice and servility of a Southern slave plantation.

The verdict of the world, whether resistance to tyrants is obedience to has been rendered in the affirmative in every age and clime. Whether the weapons used in the struggle against despotism have been spiritual or carnal, that verdict has been this Glory to those who die in Freedom's cause Courts, judges, can inflict no brand of shame, Or shape of death, to shroud them from applause No, manglers of the martyr's earthly frame, Your hangmen fingers cannot touch his fame! Long trains of ill may pass, unheeded, dumb But Vengeance is behind, and Justice is to come! (Loud applause.) We have been warmly sympathizing with John Brown all the ay through, from the time of his arrest till now. Now he no longer needs our sympathy, for he is beyond suffering, and wears the victor's crown. Are we to grow morbid over his death, to indulge in sentimental speech, to content ourselves with an outburst of emotional feeling, and not to come up to the work of abolishing slavery I confess, I am somewhat apprehensive in regard to this powerful and wide-spread excitement, lest there may follow an exhaustion of the system, a disastrous reaction, in consequence of neglecting to make it directly subservient to the cause of emancipation by earnest and self-sacrificing effort. I see in every slave on the Southern plantation a living John Brown one to be sympathized with far more than ever John Brown needed sympathy, whether in the jail or on the scaffold at Charlestown.

I see Jour millions of living John Browns needing our thoughts, our sympathies, our prayers, our noblest exertions to strike off their fetters. And, by God's help, will we not do it? What can we do I do not know that we can do any thing for Virginia. She seems past all salvation to have been 4 given over to believe a lie that she may be But here we stand, with our feet upon the old Pilgrim ground and I ask the sons of .1 1 1 1 1. tine miners, are we noi competent to mane tne oic Bay State free to all who tread its soil (Enthusiastic applause.) Are we to have another Anthony Burns rendition? Shall we allow any more slave-hunting from Berkshire to Barnstable? (No! No!) No? How, then, will you prevent it You must make that decree a matter of record, through your representatives in the State House and if you want to do an effectual work tomorrow, and to consummate John Brown's object as far as yon can, see to it that you put your names to the petition to the Legislature, now in circulation, asking that body to declare that, henceforth, no human being shall be regarded, tried or treated as a slave within the limits of this Commonwealth. (Immense applause.) But that is (laughter,) and John Brown waa a Boston Post and the Boston Courier are very anxious to discover who were the yistigators of the Harper's Ferry rebellion.

Most disinterested and patriotic journals When you read any of their editorials on this subject, just look at the bottom and see in staring capitals SOLD TO THE DEVIL, AND PAID (Laughter and applause.) Who instigated John Brown Let us see. It must have been Patrick Henry, who said and he was a Virginian 4 Gir me liberty, or give me death Why do they not dig up his bones, and give them to the consuming tire, to show their abhorrence of his mem ory It must have been Thomas Jefferson another Virginian who said of the bondage of the Virginia slaves, that one hour of it is fraught with more misery than ages of that which our fathers rose in rebellion to oppose and who, as the author of the Declaration of Independence, proclaimed it to be a self evident trcth, that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with ax in axtexari.b right to liberty. (Applause.) Beyond all question, it must have been ViRaixi.1 herself, who, by her coat of arms, with its terrible motto, Sic semper asserts the right of the oppressed to tram ple their oppressors beneath their feet, and, if neces sary, consign them to aJtloody grave I Herein John Brown found the strongest incitement and the fullest justification. Who instigated the deed at Harper's Ferry? The people whose motto is, Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God and whose exulting talk is of Bunker Hill and Yorktown, and the deeds of their aav- olctionaky sires Nay, we must go back to the source of life itself: So God created man in his own image male and female created he them. Thus making an irrepressible conflict between the soul of man and tyranny from the beginning, and confirming what Lord Brougham so eloquently uttered years ago' Tell me not of rights talk not of the property of the planter in his slaves.

I deny the right I acknowledge not the property. The principles, the feelings of our nature rise in rebellion against it. Bo the appeal made to the understanding or to the heart, the sentence is the same that rejects it. In vain you tell me of laws that sanction such a claim. There is law above all the enactments of human cod the same throughout the world, the same in all tim it is the law mitten by the finger of God upon the heart of man; and by that law, unchangeable and eternal, while men despise fraud, and loathe rapine, and abhor blood, they will reject with indignation the wild and guilty phantasy that man can hold property in (Ijoud applause.) We have a natural right, therefore, to seek the abolition of slavery throughout the globe.

It is our special duty to make Massachusetts free soil, so that the moment the fugitive slave stands upon it, he shall take his place in the ranks of the free. God commands us to 'hide the outcast, and bewray not him that I say, lbt thb will of God be That is the head and front of my 'fanaticism'! That is the extent of my infidelity That comprehends all of my treason THE WILL OF GOD BE DONE! (Great applause.) God forbid that we should any longer continue the accomplices of thieves and robbers, of men stealers and women-whippeTS We must join together in the name of freedom. As for the Union where is it, and what is- it In nno half of it, no man can exercise freedom of speech or of the press no man can utter the words of Washington, of Jefferson, or of Patrick Henry except at the peril of his life and Northern men are every where hunted and driven from the South, if they are supposed to cherish the sentiment of freedom in their bosom. We are living under an awful despotism that of a brutal slave oligarchy. And they threaten to leave us, if we do not continue to do their evil work, as we have hitherto done it, and go down in the dust before them! Would to Heaven they would go (Prolonged cheer- ing.) It would only be the paupers clearing out from the town, would it not? (Laughter and cheers.) But, no; they do not mean to go; they mean to cling to you; and they mean to subdue you But will you be subdued? 'No! 'No! I tell you, our work is is Tatus nui ui iuis sIjAvukx-CURSED UNION, if we would have a fragment of our liberties left to us Applause.

Surely, between freemen who believe in exact justice and impartial liberty, and slaveholders who are for cleaving down all human rights at a blow, it is not possible there should be any union whatever. How can two walk together, except they be agreed The slaveholder, with his hands dripping in blood, will I make a com- pact with him? The man who plunders cradles, will I say to him, Brother, let us walk together in uni- ty The man who, to gratify his lust or his anger, scourges woman with the lash till the soil is red with her blood, will I say to him, Give me your hand let us form a glorious Union No, never never Applause. There can be no union between us. What concord hath Christ with Belial? What union has Freedom with Slavery Let us tell the inexorable and remorseless tyrants of the South that their conditions, hitherto imposed upon us, whereby we are morally responsible for the existenoe of slavery, are horribly inhuman and wicked, and we cannot carry them out for the sake of their evil company. By the dissolution of the Union, we shall give the finishing blow to the slave system and then God will make it possible for us to form a true, vital, enduring, all-embracing Union, from the Atlantic to the Pacific one God to be worshipped, one Savior to be revered, one policy to be carried out freedom every where to all the people, without regard to complexion or race and the blessing of God resting upon us all Loud applause.

I want to see that glorious day Now the South is full of tribulation, and terror, and despair, going down to irretrievable bankruptcy, and fearing each bush an officer. Would to God it might all pass away like a hideous dream And how easily it might be What is it that God requires of the South, to remove every root of bitterness, to allay every fear, to fill her borders with prosperity? But one simple act of justice, without violence or convulsion, without danger or hazard. It is this Undo the heavy burdens, break evert toke, axd let thb ofpressed oo freb. Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy darkness shall be as the noon-day. Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer thou shalt cry, and he 6hall say.

Here I am. And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in. How simple and how glorious It is the complete solution of all the difficulties in the case. that the outh may be wise before it is too late, and give heed to the word of the Lord! Bat, whether she will hear or forbear, let us renew our pledges to the causa of bleeding humanity, and spare no effort to make this truly the land of the free, and the refuge of the oppressed Onward, then, ye fearless band. Heart to heart, and hand to hand.

Yours shall be the Christian's stand. Or the martyr's grave. Mr. Garrison took his seat amid loud and long continued cheering. Samuel E.

Sewall, Esq. Dear Sir It is impossible for me to be present at the Temple this evening, and fulfil what I regard as an imperative engagement elsewhere, which I regret. I feel that the occasion is one which should call serious and patriotic persons to consider their relations to that system of oppression which' has made a wise man mad, and which, to-day, has judicially terminated an earthly life, to all appearance, worthier of duration here than that of any of those who have agreed to bring it to a severe, but not ignominious end. I myself am persuaded that John Brown was a mo nomaniacmade such by the horrible, weight of Kansas troubles and I cannot justify what seems to me a premature, ill-jndged, and every way crazy and wrong act. But when I consider the conscientious calmness and religious determination which accompanied the deed, that which would else be utter and pernicious folly becomes glorified, by the motive, with a heroism worthy to go on record with the brightest examples of Scotch and Revolutionary History; and we cannot help feeling that e'en the light that led astray was light from Heaven.

Truly yours, HENRY M. DEXTER. Boston, December 2, 1859. LETTER. To Hksbt Wilson, Senator at Washington Sir, I had intended to delay writing what I have to say upon the subject of this letter until such time as I could speak of an act which, performed by you, had become part of the history of the contest between freedom and slavery in America, rather than, as I now do, enter upon a discussion of a proposed measure of party policy.

But upon further consideration, I have decided, inasmuch' as a word of remonstrance is better than a word of censure, to adopt the latter course. The telegraphic reporters announce, by your procurement, I suppose, certainly with your approbation, that you seize the earliest convenient opportunity to disclaim, from your easy chair in the Senate Chamber, any connection or sympathy with John Brown's I apply to the event at Harper's Ferry th title which I suppose to come from your own lips, although I prefer the word, which I believe will be awarded to it, when hereafter that affair shall be studied in the light of subsequent events, rebellion. I am also vcredibly informed, by persons who have the honor of your acquaintance, that you declared the same intention before you left Massachusetts, to enter upon the performance of your official duties. I am further informed by the same authority, that you consider the enterprise in which John Brown was engaged when he fell into the hands of the Slave Power, as wild, fanatical, insane, unjustifiable by the law of God or man as a miserable failure, in that its immediate purpose was not accomplished, and as disastrous to the cause of freedom, in that it may postpone the election cf a President pledged to your and my political faith. I believe I have truly stated the reasons which induce you to adopt the course which the country is assured you are to follow.

Does it not occur to you that you are about to do a very foolish thing Let us return for a moment to the principles upon which this crusade against wrong, in which you are a prominent chieftain, and I am the humblest of your retinue, was commenced For what are we striving Is the success of party our ultimate purpose Will our work be accomplish ed when Mr. Seward, or Mr. Chase, or Mr. Fremont, or Mr. Bates, or Mr.

Reed, or yourself, or any other man representing for the moment our section of the army of freedom, occupies the Presidential chair? or when the Republican party, having possession of the Federal Government, shall have banished every Democrat from every custom-house and post-office in the land when it shall have abolished slavery In the District of Columbia, and declared the intcr-State slave trade piracy when it shall havs repealed the Fugitive Slave Act when the principle of the Wil mot proviso shall have become the law of the land when the Federal Judiciary shall have erased the foul blot which now mars its record I think not. apprehend that even you, harassed as you are by an ever-present fear that some word of yours may defeat the election of some partizan candidate for office, will acknowledge that our work will not be complete while American freedom continues to be a fragment ary development. Believing as we do that the con between freedom and slavery is irrepressible, we Can accede to no peace save that which shall ensue fr0m the annihilation of the foe. It is then the ex tinction of slavery which is our ultimate object. The ephemeral phases of the contest are but minor inci- dents.

The admission of Kansas as a free State, the abolition of slavery within the federal jurisdiction, the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Act, are preliminary questions. There are many citadels to be besieged and conquered before we can gain that great battle field where we are to meet the whole army of sla very. Shall we then complain if John Brown, leading a forlorn hope, has opened a shorter way to the central encampment of the enemy? That brave old man accomplished his victory only by his death. And shall we now humbly apologize to the enemy because the bravest of our braves has attacked him on a field he was not prepared to defend Do the- articles of war demand that course Or are you afraid of de sertions from our camp when our soldiers find how well the campaign is progressing You fear that John Brown's sortie at Harper's Ferry may so weaken your forces that they will suf fer defeat in the battle eleven months henca but if the one places us nearer ultimate victory than the other, ought we to sigh over the leaser defeat? The forces of slavery are struck with fear and trembling. The South is aroused to a sense of impending danger.

Slave roasters are beginning to understand that they maintain their position only by force of actual or imputed superior power. And to three millions of bondmen, that conception of a better state, and of a possibility of its attainment, which, once perfected, dooms slavery to sure destruction, is rapidly coming. John Brown's rebellion sounds a note of preparation for the slave, and of warning to the master and if the white man neglects the call, the black man will not. This is the warning you are to take up and to repeat, if you do your duty. To you as a Senator, sworn to devote your best energies to the protection and preservation of the Constitution, the Union and the liberty of America as a citizen acknowledging fealty to the national compact; as an an ti-slavery agitator, pledged to hold your opposition to slavery above all considerations of party policy, and to continue your course whether in majorities or in minorities as a Christian, seeking to accomplish the will of the Mas ter, to establish freedom and to preserve peace, you are bound to proclaim that warning.

But you aver that a regard for party success, which I do not charge you with placing above, but which you certainly confound with, substantial victory, requires that you shall denounce the 'raid of John Brown as the insane project of a shattered brain, as anomalous, as having no connection with the anti-slavery agitation, as not being necessary as a result therefrom, or as an aid to its further progress in fine, as having no other cause, direct or remote, than the whim of a madman. But in this you are mistaken The public sentiment which spoke out all through New England on the evening of Dec. 2d, proves that the rebellion at Harper's Ferry 6prang from a cause existing among the people that a time had arrived in the progress of events, when it became necessary to serve a purpose in the contest; that John Brown was but the executive who gave effect to what the great Northern mind had, insensibly to itself, per haps, enacted and approved. Do you doubt Had you at Worcester, at any one of some scores of villages I might name, had you even at Boston, on the night of Friday last, uttered the words which you will think it necessary to speak in order that some plo-slavery State or district may be deceived into upholding anti-slavery men, you had certainly been convinced right speedily. 1 n.

maMntiiutcuj progresses, xive years ago, your election to the United States Senate was a great tri umph of your special principles over prejudice, just and otherwise, against yourself. We have now no occasion to desire popularity in our candidates." Our nominees are all available, so long as they are true to our cause. We are no longer conservative. We are no longer obliged to say to the printer of the Libe rator, 'Please, sir, abuse us a when election day is at hand. We are a respectable party we have a millionaire among us we have had plural ity of the votes of Boston.

More than this, we have, even here in Boston, as we have been informed by a Senator of Massachusetts, an association of gentle men ot property and standing, of gentlemen emi nent in law, in literature, and in commerce, in some part, perhaps, of gentlemen in official station, who, at their weekly gatherings, drink this sentiment Success to the rst slate isscBBEcriON at thb feotrrH I And I am indeed permitted to go further. ana to say to you, that the same Senator of setts to whom I have referred as my authority for mia statement. Obtained his kno ledge of the fact by his own personal presence at one of these gatherings, some months before he was placed at the head of the Democratic party in this Commonwealth, and that mat senator, forgetful of his position, of his sur rnnn inn. 1 i icBBuns ne naa learaea in many years of grovelling subserviency, of the sentiments which appear to be his inheritance, joined in outward action, and apparently insincerity of heart, in this foolish, fanatical, insane, or treasonable toast-Is it for you, who ate set as an example unto to halt and stagger before the lion in the path, while humbler men are not afraid to follow If yon hesitate, can yon expect that those who, like the Senator I have mentioned, have been but almost persuaded, will do otherwise than return to their wallowing in thamire? Republican raox thb BROWN DEMONSTRATION AT MlIJOBrj Dear Garrison I am gla4 to inform yon and the friends of frtttont that our meeting on the evening of Dee. 2d was every sense a complete success.

Indeed, it f4P ceeded our. highest expectation. We took tmr- jinimarj bviiic misgivings and tremble Our Hopedals friends, with some few exceptions turned the cold shoulder, and doubted the propriety cf all such gatherings, on the ground of their non-resistance. But, looking to God for we concluded to go on, not doubting that could do so, and still make a clean record for the act, tj.fc court of Heaven. "The result has convinced our work was righteous, ad the reward In your last paper, you announced that tbe peop, of Milford would hold a meeting on the evening of the day of John Brown's execution, and that bell hung on the Town House would at tht appro, priate time be tolled.

Notwithstanding many obstacles, all that was promised we accomplished, AtA first, let me record with sincere gratification, tlit 5 earnest and free prayer-meeting, in sympathy John Brown and his bereaved family, wa aj the Congregational Church. James T. AVoodburv the pastor, presided, and opened the meeting ia faithful manner worthy of an Abolitionist. Xea remember him in the days of 'Auld Lang Syne' and, on this occasion, he went back to his rt love was an earnest and deep sympathetic tone in the words uttered and prayers offered. One speakers attempted a very feeble apology for ickd Nehemiah Adams, and would not have kftn denc-ene.

ed as an unworthy minister of Christ. He fUa. -fully replied to by a gentleman from Mr. Betelter'i Church, of Brooklyn, N. who doubted whether a man so recreant as Dr.

Adams could know any thin about Christ or his spirit. The fact was announced, that seven years ago, ft Congregational Church of Milford passed a icriet cf resolutions, declaring that no slaveholder shoijld enter their pulpit, or sit at the communion-ube. Tfci speaker, who with great satisfaction alluded to this creditable matter, put the following question, turning to Sir. Woodbury in the chair all other churcl in the country took this noble position, how long wonH slavery continue? Only one responded Utr, Mr. Woodbury.

Remember this acknow.edgs.tnt, and then tell us where the sin of American slavery rests. Can that be the Church, of Christ, that pes- sesses the key to unlock the dark prison that koids four million groaning slaves, and will not do it) This meeting, though protracted, kept mp its interest to the last, and will long be remembered as a profitable means of helping on the cause of the lufferirg and enslaved. The ladies connected with Mr. Woodbury's parkk, by their willingness to go from house to hoase, sb4 shop to shop, have added to the Brown fund 100. God bless them And now for our thronged and impressive meeting at the Town Ilall in the evening.

Promptly, at tL hour appointed, every nook and corner, above and below, of our spacious hall, was occupied. Geort Stacy called the meeting to order, and ad for acceptance a list of officers, which the Committee had tilen the liberty to recommend. The list read was uasni-xnously accepted, as follows II. II. Bowers, President A.

B. Vant, Nelson Parkhurat and Charles Johnson, Vice Presidents A. Wilson, Secretary; Ira Stewart, Winslow Battles and B. B. MmlJl, Committee on Resolutions.

The President, on taking his position, made a few pertinent remaiks, showing his heart to be in tht right place, and himself, as we before knew, to kt true to the purposes of our meeting. The coisrfja- tion then united in the tune of 'Auld Lang Syne, and sang the hymn commencing Ho ye who breathe the bracing air O'er Massachusetts Rev. Mr. Jones, of the Methodist Church, then offered an appropriate and earnest prayer. George W.

Stacy followed in an opening address, occupying about thirty minutes. He commenced by referring to tht dark and murderous deed of Virginia ia tht execa-tion of the hero of Harper's Ferry, whose indomitable spirit, so true to his highest light, had entered vpoa that better life, where tyrants are despoiled of their power where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at The he continued, erected this day by Virginia's minions of affrighted cowards, has proved a cross gilded with glory. The murderous hand of the hangman has freed a spirit too noble, humane asd world-wide to breathe any longer the tainted atmosphere of a slave-cursed land. The incensed crowd of soldiery and glutted spectators have gaxsd upon a scene too sublime for their darkened conceptions and the last act cf this tragic dream shall htnnt tie midnight hour, and make the tyrant's head rrstle on his pillow. Ay, the death-knell of- Slavery has been sounded for, as the Lord liveth, Freedota shall be proclaimed to all the cf tit earth." The character of Brown was briefly sketched his noble bearing in court and prison portrajed ih absurdity of calling him a traitor repudiated tuck a charge is False a truer, nobler, trustier heart, More loving or more loyal, never beat Within a human The address was attentively listened to till i close, and received with marked approbation.

The followed a series of most excellent and spirited resolutions, by the chairman of the Committee, who them in a clear and distinct tone, and followed the reading in a few eloquent remarks. Both theresola lions and the remaiks were received with, great ap plause. Mr. Butts, of Hopedale, offered, as expressivs of his own views, a series of resolutions, which not called up for action. C.

L. Remond, of Salem, was now introduced, 4 enthusiastically received. As he took the platfoBf Mr. Stacy gave notice that the petition, making U- saohusetts a free State, was on the table for Kpi' tures. It would be useless to attempt an outliae of eloquent and stirring remarks of our friend Hemod-Enough to say, they were characteristic of tbt'k0' and the man, and did most excellent work to on the mind the worth of Anti-Slavery.

Ho up the latent fire of Abolitionism, and made feel the meanness of indifference and the most radical type of Anti-Slavery. I am bFP7 to say a verbatim report, by Miss Albee, of Hoped was made of this well-timed effort, and I trust itrI be sent you for insertion in the Liberator at also copy of the resolutions, which were also adopted- only two dissenting Mr. Remond was followed by Mr. Perry of Bre" lyn, N. E.

M. Marshall and Winslow Battles of Milford. Till the hour of 10 o'clock, the vast ence remained, evidentlv interested, and impreS11 ffiactive iiiijivttaiiv'; vi vm. iiuivij insr. In everv sense, this was a successful doB- ioa- I stration, and has left an impression on many not soon, nay, never, we trust, to be forgotten.

Hall was dressed in mournir.g, aa expressive of man's remembrance of the departure of the vt martyr. A collection, amounting to some Uken up. A vote was also passed. to offer the two11 tionsfor publication in the -Boston Dihf Journal, and to forward a copy to Got. Wfci has better earned the name of Gov.

Foolish. o. w. CF" To-dayFriday, Dee. 18-their tunate associates of John Brown Cookt Coppic mnd CopsUndart to be murderously oeutd Charles tenen, Va.

A day of reckoning is My 6.